Natalia Veselnitskaya was not only at the Trump Tower meeting that's dominated the news this week. She spent the first half of June appearing at several key moments for Russian relations in the US — often with the lobbyist revealed on Friday also to have been at the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday provided exemptions from the travel ban for grandparents and some other family members, as well as additional exemptions for some refugees. The Justice Department asked the justices on Friday night to remove those exemptions. The court called for a response from Hawaii by noon Tuesday.

In the days that Donald Trump Jr. emailed about a meeting with a "Russian government lawyer," Republican leaders were working hard to convince each other that the rogue primary campaign was at its end.

The executive order cannot be used to "exclude grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States," US District Judge Derrick Watson ruled. Watson also placed additional restrictions on which would-be refugees can be excluded under the order.

"The A Team - headed to the White House!" Rob Goldstone wrote on the night of Trump's election victory. Over the weekend, Goldstone — who represents the musician son of a billionaire in Russia — said he helped arrange a June 2016 meeting between the president's son and a Russian lawyer who had been working to change US policy.

US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly held arguments Friday as part of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's lawsuit against Trump's "election integrity" commission. The group argues the commission violated a federal privacy law in its voter list request.

The state of Hawaii, which sued the Trump administration over the executive order, is trying — without success thus far — to get a federal court to weigh in on the administration's decisions on how to implement the travel ban after the June ruling from the Supreme Court allowing the ban to go into effect in part.

After several disastrous TV appearances, Trump's top speechwriter has avoided the limelight. But White House officials say Miller continues to be a key player who truly understands the Trump worldview.

Sometimes silent, sometimes screaming, more and more women are dressing up as characters from The Handmaid's Tale to protest the Republican agenda. "I have never in my life experienced anything like this," said the show's costume designer.

Lambda Legal announced Thursday that it will be asking the justices to hear Jameka Evans' case, raising the question of whether sex discrimination bans include a ban on sexual orientation discrimination.

Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts that federal prosecutors say were smuggled into the United States. The arts and crafts retailer will also pay $3 million as part of a settlement.

Former prosecutors and a law professor say that there are a lot of things we don’t yet know about what actually happened between the TV hosts and Trump and that, based on what we do know now, it likely wouldn’t be criminal.

In a letter to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, joined by 10 other statewide officials, gives the administration until September to end the Obama-era protections for some undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

While in Ohio this week, the vice president told an audience that he “was for Jim Renacci before it was cool.” Renacci is citing the remarks as evidence that he’s the Trump administration’s preferred candidate. Pence’s people say its not an endorsement.

Although no officials in the US are publicly describing the administration's plans for implementing the travel and refugee bans, news organizations reported Wednesday night that a State Department cable has detailed the new policies — which could go into effect as soon as Thursday.

Update: The Senate majority leader's political team voiced its displeasure about America First Policies' plan of attack against Sen. Dean Heller, perhaps the GOP's most vulnerable lawmaker up for re-election in 2018. But the Trump-aligned group plowed ahead anyway — only to pull the ad later Tuesday.